SEIU, HuffPo and Media Matters: Is an Unholy Alliance About to Unravel?
by Liberty ChickIf you haven’t read by now all the headlines on this story, you’ll want to start at the beginning and read the first post, SEIU Storms Private Residence, Terrorizes Teenage Son of Bank of America Exec. Because as each day passes, new facts are popping up. The story seemed so outrageous at first. After all, the thought of over 500 screaming and chanting protesters surrounding a Bank of America lawyer’s private residence while the man’s teenage son, home alone, hid frightened inside a bathroom – it’s just so extreme, even by SEIU’s standards.
I knew something was up when the following day, Fortune magazine editor Nina Easton, a neighbor of the targeted residence, published an account of the incident and was almost immediately attacked by what seemed like practically a coordinated dogpile of writers from several specific sources.
In almost mirror fashion to the Town Hall events last August, when both the Huffington Post and Media Matters seemingly tried to cover up and dismiss the violent acts that SEIU committed against Kenneth Gladney, the same players were again out in full force. As our Larry O’Connor wrote, both outlets behaved less like journalists and more like arms of the SEIU press office, dismissing SEIU’s bad behavior and attacking an innocent party with fabricated conflicts of interest as a method of distraction and intimidation.
Bob Borosage, Erica Payne, and John Podesta
And now we learn this: Erica Payne, the guest who was invited to appear Friday on Megyn Kelley’s Fox News show and proceeded to blame the Tea Parties for the behavior of SEIU? She was co-founder of Democracy Alliance, the very organization that spawned and is a donor to Media Matters. SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger is also the Vice-Chair of its Board.
Payne’s appearance was a lucky development for SEIU – it fit right into the union’s media defense plan. First came the regurgitation of SEIU talking points from Huffington Post and Media Matters, and now this TV appearance from Payne. As it turns out by the way, Payne is also a Huffington Post blogger herself, and a glowing fan of Media Matters, among several other progressive associations that are too many to note in this post.
Throughout her several minute segment, as our Larry O’Connor explains, Ms. Payne repeatedly distracts viewers away from the real story to fixate instead on an obscure lone incident that was supposedly related to the Tea Party movement. (She also repeatedly implies that a house’s gas line was cut by that individual when in reality, it was the gas line to an outdoor barbecue grill that was allegedly vandalized). The attempt was entirely transparent and laughable. Her rhetoric was scripted and her points forced into the storyline in a clumsy and awkward fashion. So much so that as I watched it myself, I became suspicious. I realized I had seen her name before, and I knew Ms. Payne definitely had an agenda.
That’s what led me to look through my research and recognize Payne’s name as the co-founder of Democracy Alliance (before she departed and became involved with helping some of the other progressive infrastructure groups get started). The main founder Rob Stein, is a former Clinton Treasury official who was Chief of Staff in the Department of Commerce from 1993 through 1995.
Oddly enough, before taking his position at Bank of America as Deputy General Counsel for the company’s Bank Regulatory and Public Policy legal group, Gregory Baer, the target of SEIU’s protest, also served in the Treasury Dept. under President Clinton where he was Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions. There, Baer coordinated Treasury policy on the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, and led the development of presidential initiatives on financial privacy and consumer protection – not unlike the new position that Eric Stein holds today. Baer also previously served as managing senior counsel at the Federal Reserve Board.
Other than the fact that he works for Bank of America, why target Greg Baer?
In 1999, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act passed and portions of the Glass-Steagall Act were repealed to allow banks, brokerages and insurance companies to merge in order to provide a full array of financial services to consumers. Baer had direct responsibility for policy in this area, and as a Democrat, his views on deregulation are today often criticized by the more liberal-progressive Democrats.
In fact, the Huffington Post published a piece last November by Robert Scheer, who was critical of deregulation and even specifically called out Greg Baer for what Scheer perceives as Baer’s role in the financial crisis.
“Baer went to work as a corporate counsel for Bank of America, which announced his appointment with a press release crediting him with having “coordinated Treasury policy” during the Clinton years in getting Glass-Steagall repealed. As a result of deregulation, B of A too spiraled out of control and ended up as a beneficiary of the Treasury’s welfare program.”
I won’t use this post to debate the merits of Mr. Scheer’s arguments one way or the other, rather I include his article to demonstrate the public criticism of Baer from members of his own political party.
Further, I point out that again, the information came courtesy of one of the same two outlets that seem to have become a ubiquitous support mechanism to the SEIU. It’s interesting, to say the least, that so many of the same people involved with the Boards and funders and patrons of these two organizations are now popping up as players in the public eye of this protest incident.
- We’ve already seen the example that illustrates the funds paid by SEIU to Media Matters, along with a timeline of the articles that were published by Media Matters just prior to those donations.
- We’ve already seen the example that illustrates the outstanding debt that SEIU owes to Bank of America
- We’ve already seen examples of the union’s prior intimidation in their efforts to force unionization of bank tellers.
- Below, you’ll see an example of SEIU’s contributions to Democracy Alliance, an organization for which SEIU’s Anna Burger serves as Vice-Chair, and that provides funds to Media Matters
- Below, you’ll see an example of SEIU’s patronage to Huffington Post. Their purchase of a subscription service is most likely for some form of legitimate advertising or email campaign services; but this establishes that SEIU has a working relationship with HuffPo as a customer.
I’m especially curious to know why Greg Baer was selected in the first place. Who suggested him and for what reasons? And did it have anything to do with Baer’s time in the Clinton administration, where his policies on deregulation apparently became a more current trigger for some of the progressive rage regarding the financial crisis? Did any of the progressive new media outlets, through their mutual relationships with one another, have any input or advance knowledge of Baer as a target?
It may be a tangled web of progressive organizations out there, but the same few always seem to make their way to the surface. Perhaps it’s too soon to tell if there’s any conflict of interest in any of their activities, but we’ve got plenty more research we’re holding onto. One thing is for certain, we will keep watching and waiting.
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Keep up the AWESOME work!!
People need to be in JAIL for this.
If you dig far enough, you always ends up with Soros and the top of the "web of deceit" pyramid.
Check out this interactive flow chart from Muckety.com for Soros. It's amazing. Everything is interactive so you can see how deep all of the connections go. http://www.muckety.com/George-Soros/4166.muckety
Here's a map for the SEIU: http://www.muckety.com/Service-Employees-Internat...
Time to lawyer up.
Keep scratching Chickie-poo,………You're on the right track, there is a nugget buried somewhere in the
barn-yard scat, and if anyone can find it, you can.
FIGHT on PATRIOTS ! ! !
Great research – any time I hear someone apologize or justify the radical left, I always "consider the source."
In this case, the apologist Erica Payne is just standing up for her own sick ilk.
The leftist radicals can call themselves "Unicorns and Fairies for Freedom and Love" and try to cover up their incestuous relationships, but being inbred takes its toll sooner or later.
These "weeds of corruption" run so deep in all Progressive/Liberal/Leftist elite circles..
That keeping track and focus is a full time job…
I don't think there's enough "Round-Up" on the planet to make US a beautiful garden spot ever again..
Weiner Fact? If SEIU contributes to HuffPost – does it mean Ariana Huff works for SEIU?
Weiner alert: if BP contributed to Obama and Bobby Jindal did not – who is Obama working for: BP or the people of Louisiana?
When the lefty media continually covers for anything shady here, most of the public will never know about it. Nobody is going to make them cover this, so all this digging needs to result in some lawsuits.
Lawsuits will be the only way to get these groups into the public eye.
One wonders just how legal it is to hold a protest rally on the front yard of a private residence. Did they need a permit? How about extra police for crowd control? Since this protest appears to have been well planned, some details must have been arranged beforehand. It already appears that the local police escorted the protestors to Baer's home. Is that legal?
If not, then it seems that Baer would be right in starting legal proceedings against the organizers and participants. It would be nice to see a pain and suffering suit brought by the teenaged son who was forced to barricade himself inside a bathroom in order to protect himself from angry protestors who had surrounded his house.
When will they learn that in this age of technology the facts will come out?
They're all in the same bed.
Keep up the digging 'till you even know their "sleep number".
Always Soros in the wood pile hmmm…
Great article. Barry's popularity is circling the toilet. The people are waking up. Erica Payne went to defend their action on FOX. These moronic thugs can feel the pinch and are making their final efforts to assert control.
We need to keep pushing!
Thank you again, Lib Chick.
Shouldn't Obama be impeached if he is connected because this is un-American.
Erica Payne = Ditsy Liberty Chick = PATRIOT Democrats/Progressives = Evil
Liberty Chick, you rock. Keep up the good work.
Well that gives the left ONE hot chick. Most of them look like Hillary, Elena or Janet! If that's all you people have to hang your hat on it's no wonder you're bitter all the time!
The SEIU protesters had a police escort to his house!!
The dots always go around in a complete circle…they can't get away from the facts when they come out! They can run, but eventually, there will be no place to hide! Go get 'em!!
The full exposure of all these corrupt entities, including the White House, the sooner AMERICA WILL HAVE FREEDOM RESTORED!
Crroks. Payne should be investigated by Congress. SEIU sghould be dismantled much like th e mafia was…
Not only do we need to stop these people, we need to make them answer for their crimes in a VERY public way.
I'd say it was time to set that wood pile on fire, and flush that evil creature out in the open. I want dibs on the first shot.
That's the plan.
Vote out all incumbents and do not vote for a progressive.
The White House, Huffing-paint Post, SEIU, Media Murders and CPUSA are all working in concert to undermine the constitution and they are right in your face flaunting it now. Chairman O is connected at the hip with all of them and the "justice" department is providing "official cover" and keeping independent prosecutors off of their backs. Eric Holder is easily the most corrupt AG I have ever seen in my lifetime and the proof is in the pudding. On one hand prosecuting soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan is hunky-dory and on the other its just fine to avoid the questions about the Sestak "job offer" to keep him out of the Pennsylvania senate race.
The White House is constitutionally required to remain separated from the judiciary but in this White House they are acting in a coordinated effort disseminating "official propaganda" and "officially silencing" dissent of private citizens.
This has to end.
Your hotness continues. You really tie everything together.
I absolutely LOVE IT when you sink into attacks like that. It shows you have NO arguments against the research presented whatsoever.
There will be more of this kind of SEIU protest. I hope in the future the homeowner simply turns on their lawn sprinklers,,,,would make for wonderful video and could be the first bath many of those protestors have had.
PS: great work LC, keep it up!
They really don't care. The left and their willing lap dogs in the MSM will just continue to ignore the facts and if it gets too hot for them to handle, they'll just toss a sacrificial lamb under the bus and then blame the right like they always do.
Can I suggest that this is one reason the FCC wishes to control the Internet through Net Neutrality. Such control could very well limit access to real truth and fact.
He's a democrat. They'll buy him off and he'll bend over and say thank you sir, may I have another.
The "connections" alone don't rise to the level but the "coordinated assault" against the citizenry does when they trample all over the individual right to engage in dissent and redress grievances publicly or otherwise.
Impeachment starts in HOUSE..we need Majority…don't have it yet…wait for it………………………..
Please enumerate the "crimes" and the laws that were broken.
Excellent work LC.
From what I have been able to discover on the net, she was/is partially funded by soros.
Isn't Al Gore's internet a cool thing? These progressive scum can't hide behind their media lapdogs anymore.
If memory serves, the sidewalk and street are public property. However, once a foot is placed upon the grass or driveway, it's tresspass unless invited. That is according to Tort law. Now throw in the child's fear and mental anguish and you have real potential for a civil law suit. Correct me if I am wrong.
Freguently and often.
Impeachment resolutions are made only by the House of Representatives, then turned over to the House Judiciary Committee, they in turn proceed to a full House Vote. A lengthly process ensues with the Articles of Impeachment to be finalized by a Senate vote, 67 Senators are needed for the final Impeachment proceeding. There are no appeals. Fat chance that our Senate and Congressional leaders would vote for Impeachment, they have paved the way for oppression, bribery, extortion, deception, intimidation, propaganda, election meddling, and a vulgar abuse of power.
Yeah that's why they disclose the contributions in public records. Because they're "hiding."
You didn't read it in the New York Times did you?
Check this out about soros:
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article….
It gives one an idea as to his hatred of the US.
excellent non-answer, Fred. We're still waiting for those facts.
Imagine that 1 chick and a few Breitbart bloggers uncover a story of THIS MAGNITUDE while the entire lame street media covers it up. Keep the truth flowing Liberty….
I don't watch much TV on the weekend, but I happened to catch this particular interview. I kept waiting for Kelley to point out that if a photo existed of the person who vandalized the grill that Payne seemed so obsessed over was in the possession of the media, that person would be in jail right now. Meanwhile we've got photos of hundreds of people in the act of committing a felony. How many of them are in jail at the moment??
"Endure the same kind of attacks" and the attack is your choosing whose head you want in your lap? I'm sure Liberty Chick is now at ease that you'll be stalking Erica Payne.
The Obama thug administration is consciously planting the seeds of civil war. His storm troopers will continue to fan the flames of discontent and pour gasoline on those flames until the outrage explodes. The "never let a good crisis go to waste" administration will then declare marshall law, suspend elections, and begin jailing critics. Legal civil disobedience of sit-ins and picketing from patriots will suddenly become illegal actions in the lawless Obama WH. Obama's idols (Hugo Chavez and Fidel Casto) will be so proud of their student. Can't happen you say? Think about this: SEIU thugs with a DC police escort intimidate on private property and terrorize an innocent 14-year-old boy while a month ago a SWAT team in IL is called out to protect Obama by intimidating a group of peaceful, largely elderly Tea Party protesters. Anyone who is not worried isn't watching. P.S. The MSM virtually ignores both stories being the administration's propaganda arm.
Payne was also on the Fox business block this weekend and changed her gas line story yet again. It seems she keeps trying to make that stick.
SEIU, Soros thugs, HuffPo actions remind me of the pogroms that took place in Russia prior to WWI.
Great work, LC. Keep up the terrific efforts!
I missed adding this. Notice the organizations soros funds.
http://www.earstohear.net/soros.html
I have been lax. Now not so much.
Right into the corner!
The Obama thug administration is consciously planting the seeds of civil war. His storm troopers will continue to fan the flames of discontent and pour gasoline on those flames until the outrage explodes. The "never let a good crisis go to waste" administration will then declare marshall law.
Here is the Catalist map: very interesting.
http://www.muckety.com/Catalist/5024587.muckety
Who is Catalist? I've never heard of them. This is from their website:
"
Catalist is transforming the way progressive organizations communicate and campaign by creating a comprehensive, well-maintained national database of all voting-age individuals in the United States, along with the tools and expertise needed to make this database broadly accessible, at an affordable price."
The SEIU is one of their clients. Interesting. So is the Democratic Senatorial Campaign….
The Liberals, I'm sure, will discount any findings of yours unless they include video actually showing Soros paying her off in bags of money he's handing over personally and without the use of an intermediary such as a butler, driver or personal assistant. That also must include her counting it in front of good old George AND this is the real important part, he must be shown to be mouthing the count along with her. After that they'll admit to being wrong about her… maybe.
Good work! I have to wonder if the Fox News research department isn't being as diligent as they could be, particularly in this case. Some full disclosure on this clown would have been appreciated. As to Fredfriendly's comments above, sure there are connecting threads that can be found with Repub organizations too. No doubt. However, what sets the two ideologys apart is that you won't find one of them on your lawn with a bullhorn or a burning cross.
Anyone else wondering of Soros is busy setting up a short sell on a few Banks? He sure makes good money shorting on the after effects of the actions of his pals.
EVERYONE STOP. (and I apologize if someone else mentioned this already)
This entire incident has nothing to do with anything but SEIU WANTS TO "ORGANIZE" THE TELLERS OF BANK AMERICA.
This is what they call a "leverage campaign."
1. A union picks a corporate "target" based on it's vulnerability to a smear campaign. The union also considers the number of potential dues paying hourly workers.
2. The union then creates a dummy front organization (example: "Stop Walmart") to present a bunch of slanted and often completely manufactured "data" about a corporation's social sins
3. This is all a smokescreen, however, for the real "leveraging" — the calling out of bought and paid for public officials to investigate the corporation and inflict legal and regulatory damage
4. if the corporation anywhere in there agrees to sign a "neutrality agreement" with the union, the union backs away , dismantles the front group, calls off it's political and regulatory dogs.
5. Said "neutrality agreement" requires the corporation and it's management to express no negative opinions about the union to it's workers and essentially step aside while the union collects signature cards from the workers. The corporation is also expected to provide private contact info on their workforce and keep their managers from interfering in any way with the union's organizer.
6. If just 30% of workers can be strong armed in their own homes to sign on to the raft of lies and pie in the sky union promises? The lucky SOBs have a union and start paying dues.
ALL THIS TAKES PLACE WITHOUT EVER ASKING A SINGLE WORKER IF THEY WANT OR NEED A UNION.
It also shows he's thinking with his willie. And we all know that doesn't go too far.
You can bet that Barry and his administration is involved one way or another!!
Don't hold your breath, this pus-bag is just a bomb-thrower.
Everyone meet Fred. On Twitter @igotmyreasons Check out what he writes to me. And how often. He writes A LOT. Don't let him fool you. He loves me. He's just upset Liberty Chick hasn't been paying him any attention lately.
And if it's not the same Fred, then go check out Fred @igotmyreasons anyway. Tell him Liberty Chick sent you.
You think Erica Payne is hot?? She looks like Willem Defoe in Boondock Saints. And if you ever saw that movie, you know which scene I'm talking about.
So besides being a total douche, what else are you good for?
Fabulous charts. Thanks ever so much for the links. I've posted on several places on the web, and have sent it to all my contacts. Everybody else should do the same.
Thanks. I tend to be a research geek and found this site while researching another issue. You could spend all day on there…
It took you two whole paragraphs to type, "I know you are but what am I." That, Fred, is basically all you said.
All UNIONS SUCK!!!! Just say no to UNIONS!
The fire is already burning!
Good, there's a Weiner that needs roasting.
…of any stripe.
Yes, keep digging! EVERYONE KEEP DIGGING!!! And saving every bit of info you get your hands on because it will disappear! Especially if it's brought to light.
Their humongous interconnected web, and their tactic of always blaming the other side for exactly what they are and do, (like calling the Tea Parties astroturf, etc.) ,is so obvious. It/they are so childish and immature, and really just use childish playground tactics of school bullies, I'm constantly amazed and baffled why so many people fall for it.
I think all funding from any/all gov't sources should be eliminated. I would like to see that as a choice for elimination to save federal money! Cut off their gravy train(s)!
Congress should also pass a bill that says union workers get to choose what party they want their money to go to. It should be their choice! They could do it by a vote of workers secret of course), then divvy up the percentiles accordingly. They should NOT be forced to have it go to liberals. It is un-American to force them to support their money to a particular party!
Soros = Obama's Brain
Obama = Soros Puppet
MSM = Obama Lackeys
If I were Obama, I would also hide from the press (last news conference Jul 09).
I agree. I wouldn't mind it if it is properly disclosed to the public, so people can make inform decisions.
We need a website with a list of who is progressive and who isn't. They hide it you know.
seiu, huffington post, and cap are DESPICABLE! When I saw the video of the THUGS on the BOA employee's property I was SHOCKED. Can it be that these libRETARDS are such STUPID SHEEP that they would go to a person's private residence to TERRORIZE! It's a shame the BOA executive was not raising PIT BULLS, and didn't have a few SHOTGUNS to patrol his property with when he arrived at his home. soros is a DESPICABLE man, using his ill gotten gains (currency manipulation) to BUY IGNORANT SHEEP and finance organizations that UNDERMINE OUR CONSTITUTION. I laugh when I hear the annointed one demonize evil bankers and wall street executives. Yet, he never mentions a word about soros. Hmm, I smell a RAT. soros should be ARRESTED and tried for TREASON. It's no coincedence there is always a soros money trail where EVIL lurks!
Revoke Soros' naturalized citizenship. Also, who paid for the buses to get the mob there, SEIU, your local community organizer, who? It looks by comparison that reviled by lefties George W. Bush times, were actually exemplary democracy in action.
Check my very last posts. To really find out just do a google. It's on the web. Fantastic what info can be found and crosschecked.
The contributions to Erica Payne's not for profit organization show a clear conflict of interest with a paper trail.
On the other hand, breitbart's sites are merely publishing news stories and opinion pieces, and there's no concrete proof you can show of them colluding with other special interest groups to violate private property, afect the policy of government or private industry through threats and intimidation. The most telling thing though, is that you can't point out the same type of blatant misinformation and misreporting of events such as you see via media matters and huffpo.
You'd do more damage targeting brietbart's site with something more than baseless accusations without a shred of evidence to back them up. Saying something must be true simply because it's not impossible to be true, is a logical fallacy, and shows your lack of intellectual firepower.
I recall saying that repeatedly about the accusations of crimes committed by the bush administration, and never got a substantive answer.
Hence the push for federal control of the internet……..
Google this-SEIU wants your 401k The Obama Administration is poised to loot your life long savings, at some point this all has to stop.
Liberty Chick – You are one of the VERY BEST!
I take my hat off to a REAL JOURNALIST!
Indeed, Missy8s, this does have to end – and the sooner the better. But how to impeach the lot of them, when they are the majority in our government?
I think We The People have grown more than weary watching the multitude of criminal capers unfolding. Each dawn seems to bring ever more shocking news of government malfeasance that just never seems to stop.
Although we now know that Alinsky taught these people to overwhelm their enemies by causing them to "…feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future," we don't WANT to follow their evil machinations, like sheep to the slaughter. We know their plan, and WE DON'T LIKE IT!
As further evidence of their disregard and disrespect of We The People, we have only to reference Chairman O's graduation speech at, of all places, West Point. Apparently, he now feels sufficiently comfortable to lift the edge of his mask and reveal a bit of "transparency," as he flaunted his Marxist One World Order dreams.
If there are any honest, patriotic, Constitution-loving politicians reading this – HELP US. HELP US NOW!
Stop with all the FACTS !!! The left hates FACTS !!!! As Glenn Beck always says .. It's easier to use their own words and who they are in bed with …
This makes it too easy !!!!! (Unless your brainless)
Great article – let's see what Media Outlet will pick this up !!!
Exactly and I wish that posters here understood how our government works !
Also, Impeachment is but the first step, it then must go to the Senate, where the actual trial and vote takes place, prior to ousting a president; which has NEVER happened, thus far, in this nation's history.
Exactly !
Harassment, breach of the peace, and trespass, for starters, for the SEIU mob.
If you mean for Barry, I'll get back to you.
Liberty Chick,
You're obviously passionate about your positions, and work very hard. You may benefit by tightening up your posts, and letting facts speak for themselves. Your pluck is admirable.
Kenneth Gladney, however, is a losing angle, which will be proven in court. You'd be well advised to stop pounding his story.
Keep slugging.
Guess we won't see you for awhile 1red, it's a looooooong list!!!
Where are all the trolls??? Didn't get their marching orders yet on how to dispel this one?? lol
THIS is the transparency they must have been talking of -
Conflict of interest how? I thought you were going to show me illegality? Why not man up and just shoot a few cops to make your point, that's how it works these days.
If Erica looks like Willem Dafoe, Liberty Chick must be Moe Howard.
I have been having to wear my tin foil hat lately
My computer has been freezing up and my wife will not
take my word for it that "they" have done something to it.
Just because I do not like the policy of the POTUS "they"
attack my computer.
The horror of it all…..
lol
I'm working on it and the list is too long to post, actually, and I'm nowhere done with it all. ;^)
Below is a video which shows how the typical, liberal/progressive Obama/Biden supporters think and understand the American political system. The S.E.I.U. takes full advantage of these voters, the AFL-CIO exploits them for power and then we have the U.A.W. International Union representatives using this ignorance in voter knowledge as a means to make gains in their agenda, to keep their cushy $$ wages and in keeping their "UAW" pension along with their G.M. pensions. All the while the U.A.W. workers are being paid $15.00 per hour with no defined pension. Sweet!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg0pDPK56Ys&fe...
I have noticed that when the topic is too difficult to spin they do not speak
For Dick Cheeknee, you're right. I saw the video and Kenneth Gladney was definitely beating himself up. Thank god I have you and others like you to interpret things for me so I don't have to rely on my lying eyes.
LC, please forgive me for this trite expression but YOU GO GIRL.
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